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Unrelated Videos: Why YouTube VEVO Channels Deliberately Flunk Marketing 101

Sunday, May 6th, 2012

If you listen to music on YouTube, no doubt you’ve heard of the “VEVO” channels used by the major record labels. However, if you listen to non-dance, non-soft-rock, or older music, you probably wonder why VEVO channels’ “Related Videos” are anything but related. You may put on some Alice in Chains or Nirvana, but be [...]

John Lennon Saying Something Unusual…

Saturday, October 9th, 2010

…given his support for communism: Overpopulation is a Myth (Yesterday would have been his 70th birthday. Via Lew Rockwell.)

Beatle Tribute Band “Fab Faux” Performs Abbey Road B-Side Live On Howard Stern (Sirius)

Saturday, May 1st, 2010

From Sirius/Howard Stern via Vimeo: This Fab Faux recording of most of side two of ‘Abbey Road’ is a live, in-the-studio performance for a two-camera video shoot. It was originally recorded for The Howard Stern Show and only the audio has been broadcast – until now. Howard and company were kind enough to let us [...]

Beet Impersonators (Doug’s “The Beets” With Real People)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

If you’re as old as me, you remember the 1990s Nickelodeon cartoon Doug. The children in the show listened to a music group “The Beets”, a hybrid of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Ramones, and The Clash. Here are some real people dressing up like The Beets and singing to their songs “I Need [...]

Why does everyone hate this album but me?

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Bush’s Razorblade Suitcase is always criticized and shit on. Their first album, Sixteen Stone, which contains all their classic rock radio hits, was criticized for being a set-up corporate ripoff of then-deceased Nirvana. (And while we all love the hits, it isn’t anything special. I have it.) So for their next album, Razorblade Suitcase, Bush [...]